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Mat Collishaw is a key figure in the important generation of British artists who emerged from Goldsmith’s College in the late 1980s. He participated in Freeze (1988) and since his first solo exhibition in 1990 has exhibited widely internationally.
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In Nature H’Abour, JK Huysman describes a wealthy collector and recluse who became obsessed with rare species of flowers. His pathology is emphatically illustrated when he starts to collect flowers that appear to be infected with tropical diseases. Collishaw took images of various skin infections and inflammation from dermatological book and grafted them onto photographs […]
Mat Collishaw is a key figure in the important generation of British artists who emerged from Goldsmith’s College in the late 1980s. He participated in Freeze (1988) and since his first solo exhibition in 1990 has exhibited widely internationally.
This work refers to the Francis Bacon and Velazquez portraits of Pope Innocent X. The paintings perform as a conduit through which the Pope, the ambassador of God, appears. The presence of the Pope is impermanent in Collishaw’s film; he appears and disappears behind a constantly falling digital curtain. This alludes to both the vertical […]
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Curated by Anna Coliva and Valentina Ciarallo.
